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noun
- pluralplural of country.
But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 (the average of the 15 poorest countries’ own poverty lines, measured in 2005 dollars and adjusted for differences in purchasing power): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short.
2013 June 1, “Towards the end of poverty”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 11
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countries. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/countries
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“countries.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/countries. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “countries,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/countries.
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